Contributor: Louis Rastelli

Louis Rastelli helps operate a non-profit arts organization, Arcmtl, which promotes, distributes and archives local independent culture. In this capacity he organizes the Expozine annual bilingual small press fair and runs the Distroboto network of former cigarette vending machines that now sell art, music, films, books etc. in bars and libraries around Montreal. He is also a writer whose recent novel, A Fine Ending (Insomniac Press) is set in the Plateau/ Mile End district in the 1990s.

one sunrise at a time

This field hasn’t changed much in the nearly 150 years since it was hemmed in by the human activity surrounding it. It may have been razed to the ground repeatedly in that time – to store train cars or materials on it, to park cars on it, to gather wood for bonfires or stoves or [...]